The kingdom’s economy is the most vulnerable in the Gulf to the dramatic drop in oil prices. The country’s budget deficit for 2015 and 2016 could hit BD2 billion for 2015 and BD3 billion this year. Bahrain [...]

Bahrain has followed the lead of its Gulf neighbours by publishing a list of 68 Islamist groups it classifies as ‘terrorist’, reported UAE-daily Gulf News. The already outlawed Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbo [...]

There have been 61 complaints of “violations by social media users” filed by MPs to date, according to the Bahrain News Agency. The general directorate of anti-corruption and economic and electronic security, ci [...]

LESS THAN a week after its credit rating was downgraded to junk status, Bahrain’s government demonstrated late last month that it still had access to the international credit markets by launching a $600 million bond sale. [...]